The New Jersey disclosure comes five days after President Donald Trump alleged during a prime-time address that as many as 35,152 non-citizens are registered to vote in New Jersey. Trump claimed that roughly 250,000 non-citizens were registered across New Jersey, California, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
The governor said she became aware of the problem last week and immediately ordered her chief counsel to investigate.
“I also ordered the removal of any residents from our voter rolls who were erroneously added between June 2023 and June 2024,” Sherrill said. “The new MVC administrator that I appointed has begun the process of replacing the vendor responsible for administering the system.”
That vendor, IDEMIA, is a large digital security and biometric identification company that operates TSA PreCheck enrollment services and provides identification technology to government agencies.
The White House has indicated that California by far has the most illegals registered to vote. As to New Jersey, why hire a foreign software firm in the first place? Additionally, New Jersey officials should have checked the software to make sure it worked the way they wanted it to to.

The only people that ever had a covenant with God was Israel. They are presently without a covenant (Heb 10:9), but will inherit a “New Covenant” in the Millennium (Jer 31:31-33; Eze 36:25-27); and they permanently become “the people of God.” Christians were never in a covenant with God, but are recipients of it. Their Covenant is between God and His Son, “The Covenant of Redemption.” There is nowhere in Scripture that designates this covenant to any other than the Father, Son and Holy Spirit! When the Lord Jesus said, “This is My Blood of the New Testament,” it is for the benefit of those whom God foreknows will receive the Lord Jesus and believe in Him, i.e. “which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Mat 26:28). -NC


The covenant of redemption is an eternal agreement made within the Trinity, specifically between the Father and the Son. This covenant was established before the creation of the world and outlines the plan for the redemption of God's elect.

Parties Involved
Father: Appoints the Son as the Redeemer.
Son: Willingly agrees to fulfill the role of Redeemer through His life and sacrificial death.

Purpose
The covenant is designed to ensure the salvation of those chosen by God, often referred to as the elect.
Characteristics
Nature of the Covenant
Eternal: It exists outside of time, established before creation.
Intratrinarian: It occurs within the relationships of the Trinity, not between God and humanity.

Agreement Details
The Father promises the Son a reward for completing the work of redemption.
The Son accepts this mission, demonstrating His willingness to undertake the task of salvation.

Biblical Basis
While the term "covenant of redemption" is not explicitly mentioned in Scripture, its principles are implied throughout various biblical texts. The covenant reflects God's sovereign plan and the cooperative work of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the process of salvation. -learn.ligonier.org

I've been studying the Bible and theology in an effort to better hash out what I personally believe.

For the most part, I affirm the basics of evangelical Trinitarian Christianity.

One area I have changed my mind on is the fate of the unsaved. I used to affirm the traditional Protestant view of eternal conscious torment, but now I lean towards conditional immortality/annihilationism.

However, my view isn't quite the same as Adventism, as I still reject soul sleep. I still think the deceased person has a conscious existence in the afterlife, but they will eventually cease to exist without God sustaining them.

Are there any denominations that teach this view, or at least permit members to hold to it?

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Peace in Christ.

We are to hear His voice and be attentive listeners….being subordinate to Him…and not be found by Him responding to what He says in envy, strife, wrath, contentions.

Unto all that obey (hear subordinately) Him, He is the author (cause) of AGE-LASTING salvation. The word for “eternal” here in Hebrews 5:9 is the transliterated Greek word “aiōnios” which means AGE-LASTING. Our salvation is in the here-and-now age we are living in. We shall not mortally perish but shall have an age-lasting life for the duration of this current age.

Heb 5:8-9 KJV
(8) Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
(9) And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal (AGE-LASTING) salvation unto all them that obey (HEAR ATTENTIVELY) him;

In the original Greek texts such as in verse John 3:16, the verb translated as "have" eternal life (AGE-LASTING life) is written in the present indicative active tense, denoting an immediate, continuous, and present truth.

We have an age-lasting life now in this current age. This is a PRESENT TENSE situation as this pertains to this current age we are living in. We do not mortally die (PERISH).

Those who are dying are perishing under the wrath of God. They are “preaching” that eternal life starts now but then will continue AFTER we die. This makes no sense at all as the following verses say that we do NOT PERISH. Perishing is mortally dying.

We have (PRESENT TENSE) age-lasting life. We shall NOT PERISH.

Joh 3:15-16 KJV
(15) That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have (PRESENT TENSE) eternal (AGE-LASTING) life.
(16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have (PRESENT TENSE) everlasting life (AGE-LASTING LIFE).

Perishing means being removed mortally from this earth because of sin as Jesus here shows us in Luke 13. It doesn’t matter how we are removed….it is perishing because of sin (no matter what degree of sin).

Luk 13:1-5 KJV
(1) There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
(2) And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
(3) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
(4) Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
(5) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

He that believes on the Son has (PRESENT TENSE) age-lasting life.

Joh 3:36 KJV
(36) He that believeth on the Son hath (PRESENT TENSE) everlasting (AGE-LASTING) life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

We are to HEAR His Word that He speaks to us and believe on God who sent Him. Doing so gives us our mortal bodies age-lasting life...they that HEAR shall LIVE and not die. This is a now thing. It starts now in this age for the duration of this age.

There is NO mortal death for those who will HEAR and believe on Him that sent Him to speak to us. It does not get interrupted by our mortal death at all as we pass from death unto life.

Joh 5:24-25 KJV
(24) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath (PRESENT TENSE) everlasting life (AGE-LASTING LIFE) , and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
(25) Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

We “have” (present tense) age-lasting life.

Joh 6:47 KJV
(47) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath (present tense) everlasting life (age-lasting life).

I “give” (present tense) them age-lasting life so that we shall never perish (mortally dying) INTO THE AGE….this present age. Many translations do not translate “into the age” as it did not fit into their narrative/interpretation.

Joh 10:28
(28) And I give (PRESENT TENSE) unto them eternal life (AGE-LASTING LIFE); and they shall never perish INTO THE AGE, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

We “have” (present tense) age-lasting life.

1Jn 5:13 KJV
(13) These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have (PRESENT TENSE) eternal life (AGE-LASTING life), and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

I work for an estate sale co. The current house has a lot, and I mean a lot of liquor for sale. This is not a question about the ethics of alcohol. It is illegal to sell alcohol without a license. You may not sell alcohol at an estate sale. I just found that out. We have always sold a few bottles in previous sales. The boss seems not to care when we discussed this before setting up the sale. The boss is not a biblical christian, but i am. I have been working on set up all month. So, as a Christian am I participating in this illegal sale by doing my job? The easy answer is excuse myself from the sale. I can't because there are only 3 of us to work this sale. Besides, that doesn't help me with the ethical issue. If I know it is illegal and I work the sale, am I sinning?

Open and Closed Doors

Revelation 3:7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


These (above) are the words of Jesus Christ. He is the one who is holy and true. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. So if a door has closed for you that was once open, and it does not reopen, God allowed it for his purposes. Don’t try to force it to reopen. If the Lord opened a different door for you, and that door is clearly from God, then as long as the Lord wants you there, and he can use you there, that door will remain open, even if there are attempts of the enemy to close that door.

And we are not speaking here of physical doors that you open and close to buildings or to houses, but this has to do with opportunities for the Lord to use you to minister to others, and to their needs, and to be a witness for him, perhaps “to the regions beyond” (a reference to a hymn by A.B. Simpson and M.M. Simpson, based off Matthew 28:19). And if a door was shut on you previously, even more than one, not only can God open other doors for you, but he may reopen a door previously closed, in his timing.

God Knows our Deeds

Revelation 3:8-9 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


Jesus knows who are his, by biblical faith in him, and who are not for him, even if they profess to be. And he knows all about us, who we are, what we are thinking, and what we are doing. Nothing is hidden from his sight. So, if we have been serving him with our lives faithfully, and if we have been facing much rejection and persecution because we stand on the truth of the Scriptures, and we do not embrace the lies of the enemy, he knows what we are going through. And he knows if we have persevered even in our trials.

And Jesus knows who are faking it, who claim to be followers of Christ, but who are still of the flesh, and not of God. He can see right through the façade. He knows who is speaking truth to the people and who is teaching the lies of the enemy. They may be fooling some or a lot of people, but they can’t fool God. And they will have “their day in court” when they will have to give an account to God/Jesus Christ for their lies and for faking Christianity. And God may one day humble them before those who they had persecuted.

The Hour of Testing

Revelation 3:10-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


I believe that verse 10 here is often misinterpreted to suggest that God will remove all people from the earth who profess his name before the time of tribulation to come upon the earth. And it all comes down to that word translated as “from.” The Greek word literally means “out from within,” which would indicate they would still be on the earth during the time of tribulation, but that God would keep all who are genuinely following him secure in their faith and that he would strengthen them to persevere even in severe trial.

For we read in Revelation 11 that the nations (includes the political nation called “Israel”) will trample the “holy city” for 42 months. Physical Jerusalem is no longer the “holy city” of God. We who believe in Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Savior are that “holy city” now (see Galatians 4:22-31). And we read in Revelation 13 that the beast will be permitted to wage war against the saints, and this is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints. And in Revelation 14 it also calls for the perseverance of the saints in tribulation.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 16:33; Acts 14:22; Romans 5:3-5; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 3:7-11; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5; Hebrews 12:3-12; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:12-17; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

So, we are to be those who hold fast to our faith and to not let the enemy of our souls dishearten us to the point to where we desert the faith, for we are not promised an easy life on this earth. We are promised that, as Christ’s followers, that we will be hated and persecuted as he was, and that many of us will be martyred for our faith. We are to expect to have to go through trials and tribulations which test our faith and that we will be persecuted for righteousness’ sake. But we must keep the faith or salvation will not be ours.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

The One Who Overcomes
An Original Work / July 21, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My Prayer

An Original Work / May 30, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“Fill me with Your Spirit; help me to love others;
Let me know Your power; be an overcomer.
Show me how to follow Jesus Christ, my Savior;
Be His faithful servant to obey Him always.

“Lead me with Your presence; help me know the right way;
Teach me love and kindness, generous compassion.
Give me grace and courage to be Jesus’ witness,
Teaching His salvation to a world who needs Him.”

Won’t you come and follow Jesus Christ, your Savior?
He died so you’d be free of control of your sin;
Free to follow His ways in complete surrender;
Living sacrifices – let His grace transform you.

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I have often told my students that there used to be three ways for an army to get inside a walled city. They could scale the walls, batter the gates in, or dig a tunnel underneath and set off an explosive to blow up the defenses—literally what it means to undermine. I should have added a fourth way: get somebody inside to open the gates for you, somebody to whose advantage it will be to trade rulers.

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In his Epistle to the Ephesians St. Paul further provides an explanation for this spiritual battle. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places (Eph. 6:12). Is it possible that there is more to the events of our times than the constant persecutions the Church endures through time? Is it possible that our experience of suffering at this time in history has a truly preternatural origin and significance? What can be said of the confusion afflicting the Church? Every Catholic should be concerned about these signs of the times because our salvation depends on our fidelity to the integrity of the Faith.

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As the Carmelites celebrate St. Elijah shortly after the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, his figure emerges not merely as a biblical memory but as a prophetic presence for our own troubled age. Elijah’s name—El Javeh, “The Lord is God”—is itself a confession of faith, spoken against every form of idolatry ancient and modern. His life unfolds as a dramatic confrontation between the living God and false substitutes that promise fertility, power, or security but ultimately leave the land barren.

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Much like the original podcast, each episode includes a Scripture reading, an age-appropriate reflection from host and Catholic priest Fr. Josh Johnson, answers to common Bible questions from children, and prayer.

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Morning Prayers

Divinum Officium (EF)

Our Morning Offering – 21 July – Lord, I Am Yours (EF)

The Morning Offering (OF)

Daily Quote..."O, if we only considered this reality! Namely that God is really present to us when we speak to Him by praying... and that He can and desires to willingly comply... to our requests." - St. Lawrence of Brindisi

Saint Lawrence of Brindisi propers & commentary (EF)

Saint Praxedes; Saint Lawrence of Brindisi propers & commentary (EF)

Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time readings & commentary
Opt Mem of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest & Doctor of the Church
Other Commemorations: St. Praxedes, Virgin (RM)

Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time readings & commentary (OF)

Daily Gospel

The Precious BIood of Jesus – Short Meditations for July. July 21st — The First Shedding of the Precious Blood

Saint Daniel, Prophet

Saint Lawrence of Brindisi, Capuchin Friar Priest, Preacher, Linguist, Diplomat & Doctor of the Church

Saint Praxedes Virgin

Saints of the Day

Sermons for Everyday Living - St Lawrence of Brindisi

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We must try to understand the self-destruction of Western civilization in psychological and spiritual terms, not only in political and ideological ones. I believe that the phenomenon essentially concerns a "narcissism of goodness" that manifests itself as a collective psychology. Traditionally, Christianity has instilled the insight into the divided nature of human beings: that no one is capable of being completely good. "No one is good," said Jesus. But today, people believe they can be good and perfect.

According to Christian anthropology, the human being has two wills, and these wills often stand in conflict within the divided self. Paul depicts this as the contrast between the old self and the new self, anchored in Adam and Christ respectively. Paul experiences a painful inner conflict between the old self, which he cannot free himself from, and the new self that is in Christ (Rom 7:19, 24). But Paul seems overly optimistic when he says that we can put off the old self and put on the new self as a new way of being (Ephesians 4:22-24). In reality, we must continue to live with both.

Augustine teaches that the self is divided: the will contains two opposing impulses, one towards God and one towards the world (Confessions VIII). This division is not pathological but a metaphysical condition that follows from our fallen nature. Achieving wholeness of the self is not possible, as perfect integration belongs only to the eschaton. The inner person grows, but the outer person is not destroyed in this life. Our duality cannot be eliminated, even if its tyranny can be broken. This is central to the Christian understanding of the false and the true self: we must remain divided, but we must also remain aware of our divided nature.

According to Luther, the Christian is "simul iustus et peccator," at once righteous and a sinner, which is the permanent state of the Christian. The old Adam never disappears. Luther sharply criticizes the striving to achieve "saintliness," which he sees as an attempt to purify the will and achieve wholeness of the self. The more a person strives to be holy, the more he becomes a sinner. In his commentary on Galatians, Luther writes: "The saints are sinners, and they are holy not in themselves but in Christ." He therefore adds in the Table Talk: "God hates the saints that man creates."

For Luther, psychological and spiritual health depends on awareness of our dividedness, which leads to confession and forgiveness. The self is healed by being forgiven, not by becoming unified. The believer does not become less sinful, but becomes more aware of sin and more dependent on grace. In comparison, psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott reverses this structure: psychological health requires that our dividedness be removed, producing a unified self and perfect spontaneity. His theory aims at amalgamation, a fusion of inner and outer worlds into a single field of experience, the so-called transitional space. In doing so, he rejects the anthropology of Christianity.

Thus it is a distinctly modern idea that we should strive to become a unified self that is truly good and perfect, an aspiration Christian theology rejects as a sinful pursuit of self‑salvation. For Augustine, this is equivalent to pride (*superbia*). But Paul also speaks in 1 Timothy 6:17 about enjoying life, and this can be understood as a reference to the Adam within us who seeks earthly joy and satisfaction. Augustine arrives at a similar conclusion. We should not abandon the world but remain in it as pilgrims. In Luther's terms, avoiding saintliness means admitting that the sinner within us must sometimes make use of the world's goods. He wrote to Melanchthon: "Sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly."

Luther did not encourage moral laxity. He told Melanchthon to stop trying to achieve purity or saintliness, and instead to trust in Christ's righteousness rather than his own. He urged him to stop trying to unify the self and to stop obsessing over inner moral perfection. In modern Luther research, "sin boldly" is understood as Luther's rejection of moral perfectionism and the futility of striving for inner wholeness. Instead, we should give priority to the external righteousness given to us by Christ and reject mystical self-healing. Luther does not encourage sin, but he forbids attempts to eradicate sin, make the self unified, or purify the will.

We must still keep our dark side in check, or society will fall apart. And we can do this precisely because we recognize our divided nature and our imperfection. People who lack this awareness and see themselves as ideal or spotless often fall into destructive patterns of falseness and moralism, and then they become truly evil. We harm ourselves if we are too sinful, but we also harm ourselves if we are too righteous. Ecclesiastes 7:16 expresses this clearly: "Do not be overly righteous... Why should you destroy yourself?" Today, many institutions in the Western world, including parts of the Christian church, are marked by a kind of moral absolutism that denies the divided nature of the human being. Thus, they risk repeating the very pattern that Ecclesiastes warns against. The goodness-narcissists dominate the Western world today, and their influence is driving its self-destruction.

The traditional awareness of original sin, and the corresponding need for continual self-recognition of one's sinful nature, has largely disappeared. The consequence is that people are afflicted by goodness-narcissism, which is the worst form of sinfulness. This fuels the urge to tear down civilization, since civilization is judged evil for surviving through power: prisons, repression, borders, labour systems, resource extraction, and even war. All of this is today interpreted as evil and oppression, in accordance with postcolonial theory, critical race theory, identity politics, and all kinds of radicalism and antimilitarism.

Quite simply, if we are to be holy, civilization cannot be sustained. When identity politics was established, "Western civilization" became a symbol of power, dominance, and privilege. This creates a situation where criticism of the West is not merely historical or political, but moral and existential. Civilization becomes an obstacle to "liberation," understood as the realization of Rousseau's ideal of the perfectly good natural human being. Without a living insight into original sin and the permanently divided nature of the human being, we lose the only antidote to moral absolutism.

When humanity forgets its own dark nature, it becomes dangerous, precisely because it believes itself to be good. Ecclesiastes warns precisely against this self-destructive pursuit of over-righteousness. A civilization that denies its own inner ambivalence inevitably repeats the same pattern: it tries to become purer than any human society can bear, and collapses under the weight of its own supposed goodness.

Ortega: Nicaragua Will No Longer Hold Elections​

They have had close relations with China and Cuba for a long time.

Hi all,

Please pray for all those affected by the heat throughout the Midwest. It’s becoming unbearable for many.

Pray for relief and cooling!

God bless!

Please pray that if it is God's will my husband Robb will have less work stress and that he won't lose his job. Also please pray for my son Jakeb to be happy and healthy and to please ask God to let me hear him laugh tonight. Thank you and God bless you. I ask in the name of Jesus. Carmen

If you live in Utah let your officials know your opinion on this guy. I know the Utah allows the Driver's Privilege Card to undocumented residents.

He says it is a stomach bug and has come from work and gone to lay down.

Pray as you feel led by the Holy Spirit, but I am hoping that he recovers because my boyfriend is coming tomorrow to take me to the grocery store, run errands, etc, and I want my dad at work and not at the house.

Many gravitate to the Decalogue because of thinking it will make them right with God! But only the Jew keeping the Law, can “live” (Mat 19:17), for to him only was the Decalogue made. Jesus came to establish the Law by “fulfilling” it (Mat 5:17); and after fulfilling it, God “took it away” (Heb 10:9), so that the Jew would advance onto being in Christ, which some did (e.g. the Apostles and disciples). Though an Israelite was saved by obeying the Law, which was the sole means of salvation at that time, disobeying it brought judgment. -NC





The law is neither the ground of life to the sinner nor the rule of life to the Christian: the Lord Jesus is both the one and the other—He is our life and He is our rule of life. The law can only curse and slay. The Lord Jesus is our life and righteousness. He went down into the place where the sinner lay—into the place of death and judgement; and having, by His death, entirely discharged all that was or could be against us, He became, in resurrection, the source of Life and the ground of righteousness to all who believed in His name.

Having life and righteousness in Him, we are called to walk not merely as the law directs, but to “walk even as He walked” (1Jo 2:6). It will hardly be deemed needful to assert that it is directly contrary to Christian nature and ethics to kill, commit adultery, or steal. But were a Christian to shape his way according to these commands, or according to the entire Decalogue, would he yield the rare and delicate fruits which the epistle of Ephesians sets forth?

Would the Ten Commandments ever cause a thief to give up stealing, and go to work that he might have to give? Would they ever transform a robber into a laborious and liberal man? Assuredly not. The law says, “Thou shalt not steal”: but does it say, Go and give to him that needeth. Go feed, clothe, and bless your enemy; go gladden by your benevolent feelings and your beneficent acts of the heart for him who only and always seeks your harm (like the Gospel does –NC)? By no means; and yet, were I under the law as a rule, it could only curse and slay me.

How is this, when the standard in the New Testament is so much higher? Because I am weak, and the law gives me no strength and shows me no mercy. The law demands strength from one that has none, and curses him if he cannot display it. The Gospel gives strength to one that has none, and blesses him in the exhibition of it. The law proposes life as the end of obedience; the Gospel gives life as the only proper ground of obedience.

If the law be indeed the rule of a believer’s life, where are we to find it presented in the New Testament? Paul evidently had no thought of its being the rule when he penned the following words: “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. And “as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy” (Gal 6:15). What “rule”? The law? No; But the “new creation.” The law speaks not a word about “new creation.”

Why does not Paul say, As many as walk according to the rule of the Ten Commandments? Is it not evident that the believer has a higher rule by which to walk? Unquestionably. The Ten Commandments, though forming, as a true Christians admit, a part of the canon of inspiration, could never be the rule of life to one who has, through infinite grace, been recreated into the new creation, one who has received new Life in the Lord Jesus Christ. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” (Ro 8:2)


— Charles Henry Mackintosh (1820-1896)








MJS daily devotional for July 20


“We are to find out in Romans 6, through the gracious teaching of the Spirit of truth, all that happened to the Lord Jesus there on the Cross. Then we will know our own position and standing, since we were judicially in Him there.” -MJS

“Have you ever thought about God’s thought about you, that you are ‘to be conformed to the image of His Son’? ‘It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him’ (Rom. 8:29; 1 John 3:2).

“This cannot fail. The Lord Jesus presses on our hearts that He brings us into association with Himself. He ‘hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus’ (Eph. 1:3). He puts us in this position answering perfectly to His nature, and with a nature to enjoy it.”

“He imparts to us of Himself in order to qualify us for Himself.”

“Not only is my blessing in heaven, but I need the Lord Jesus’ power to enable me to rise above the sense of my infirmity down here; for this world, instead of contributing to me, makes me feel my weakness and need, and that I must rise out of it to find and enjoy my blessing.

“The very infirmity which this evil age makes me conscious of makes me draw upon the power of Christ, as the One outside it, passing into the heavens, so that I take pleasure in the very infirmity which is exposed here, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” James Butler Stoney (1814-1897)

Judge calls out Trump's DOJ over 'hallucinated' citation in ICE detainee case​

This is insane, Citing non existent case law:



I guess to keep up with the Trump HHS:

Trump officials downplay fake citations in high-profile report on children’s health​

The White House is downplaying major citation errors in a sweeping report on chronic disease in children released last week by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission. The report, spearheaded by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., cited hundreds of studies and was billed as an example of “radical transparency” and “gold standard” science. But the nonprofit news publication NOTUS reported yesterday that multiple studies cited in the report—which took aim at ultraprocessed foods, pesticides, prescription drugs, and childhood vaccines—don’t appear to exist. The outlet also identified dozens of other errors in the report’s bibliography, including broken links, missing or incorrect authors, and incorrect issue numbers.

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So they are ignoring court orders, lying to judges, faking citations to justify their insane decisions, and now making up citations to bolster their legal briefings.
They have not one inkling of ethical behavior.

If the boos at his parading down the field were not enough, Donald J Trump tried to insert himself into the Spanish team's triumphal celebration. FIFA head Infantino had to drag him off the stage while the confetti canons went off. How humiliating for the so-called Leader of the Free World to have to be escorted off to the sideline.

Donald Trump refuses to leave World Cup trophy ceremony as Spain celebrate

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No hope for humanity I think, brittain is hiring a wrong buy as prime-minister again, why didn`t they learn from USAs Trump?

These criminals do not deserve ANY protection by Americans, sanctuary city or not.

" Yemen's Houthi rebels have announced they are imposing a new maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia in response for a recent attack on Sanaa Airport, and after years of the kingdom leading a blockade of Houthi-controlled Yemeni ports. ...
" Last week the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen attacked the Houthi-controlled Sanaa International Airport, threatening a fragile truce that has been in place since 2022. Saudi jets had prevented an Iranian passenger plane from landing there, after the US-Saudi recognized Yemeni government warned against any Iranian planes entering the divided country's airspace.
" Within days of that incident, the Houthis reportedly sent missiles on Saudi Arabia - which was a first after years of relative peace. In addition to unveiling the anti-Saudi embargo, the Houthis spokesman warned that if the Saudi siege on Yemen is not lifted, then Houthi armed forces will move towards a full-scale war.
" Saree declared, "if Saudi Arabia turns to all-out aggression against Yemen, all of Saudi Arabia's energy facilities and its vital facilities will be targets for missiles and drones." "
Houthis Announce Blockade On Saudi Shipping, Threaten Drone & Missile Attacks On Kingdom<!-- --> | ZeroHedge
If we are in the setup phase leading to Daniel 11:40, which is what I have been positing, then the current conflict will expand into a regional jihadist uprising that will involve Egypt, Libya, and Sudan/Ethiopia.